SecretAgentWoman:This may be a top example of why they are an endangered species in the first place.

Darwin...finds a way...

That's what I was thinking. It sounds like the near-suffocation thing is normal for these crocodiles, so I'm guessing that accidents happen in the wild sometimes, too. Some species are just really bad at evolution. Routinely killing females BEFORE they lay eggs is not a great harbinger of evolutionary success.

Ah, good old false gharials. They were called such because they were originally thought to be a crocodile species that appeared similar to gharials through convergent evolution. But then it turns out they are a species of gharial after all. So they should be renamed as false false gharials.

FTA: "While mating, the male false gharial crocodile usually holds the female down with his mouth "to show his superiority," the zoo explained", according to the AFP, the female "accepted this behavior"

What? lol. Was he saying "who's your daddy!" also and is now bragging to his friends at the bar about donkey punching?